If the canon manifests itself to Clare as an enchanted silence, the act of writing commits him to ventriloquy or impersonation, making Hessey's advice "to write in your own natural Style" (qtd. in CL 200) altogether untenable.

Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius.

Regardless, the two new women we meet, Kakuka (the nosebleeder) and Teiiku (a short little girl who carries a doll on her head whom she gives voice to with ventriloquy), are on their way to find Sousou, since they are strategists and wish to offer their services to the Lesbian Army (no, that's not the real name for Sousou's faction, but it fits).

It just goes to show how much the Britney Spears camp has changed in recent months – previously Britney would have dealt with a rumour like this by stumbling across a car park in a pink wig babbling in a terrible British accent before indulging in some light shoplifting and treating a crowd of paparazzi to an extensive display of vaginal ventriloquy, but now she can get someone to rattle off a blog post about it within an hour our two.